The Last Resistance

In The Last Resistance,Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transformour political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literaturein the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a uniqueform of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious ofnations, and often proposing radical alternatives to their dominantpathways and beliefs.

While Israel-Palestine is the repeated focus, The Last Resistance alsoturns to post-apartheid South Africa, to American national fantasypost-9/11, and to key moments for the understanding of Jewish cultureand memory. Rose also underscores the importance of psychoanalysis,both historically in relation to the unfolding of world events, and asa tool of political understanding.

Examining topics ranging from DavidGrossman, through W.G. Sebald, Freud, Nadine Gordimer, the concept ofevil, and suicide bombers, The Last Resistance offers a unique way of responding to the crises of the times.

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Pagina 9But Zweig's unease also speaks to another central preoccupation of these essays
, and that is the power of fiction to make reader, as well as writer, enter pathways
they had never, in their wildest dreams, intended to tread. We saw this at the ...

Pagina 10In the writing of David Grossman (discussed in Chapter 5), it often appears that
the role of writing — fiction but also non-fiction - is to push you right through what
should be the impassable boundaries of the mind. 'We will see the broken forms
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Pagina 12'How', asks Eyad El-Sarraj, psychiatrist and the founder and director of the Gaza
Community Mental Health Programme, 'can you believe in your own humanity if
you don't believe in the humanity of the enemy?' If fiction plays a key role in what
...